Legislator maps bill for privatization
Source: BY CHARLES THOMPSON, The Patriot-News (PA), Wednesday, October 18, 2006
No slow toll collections. Special overnight rates for trucks. Time-of-day pricing to encourage motorists to drive other than during rush hours. All are some of the measures in use on privately managed highways around America. Within the next week or so, an Altoona lawmaker will introduce legislation he sees as the first step toward coaxing more of those efficiencies in Pennsylvania while filling a transportation funding gap.